All about braids: experience & tips

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Hello everyone! Since i did an all about Braids video for my youtube channel, I thought it will be just appropriate to also do a post about it. This is just to give some tips for those who have or want to get braids and to share my braids experience with you guys.First of all: Why do I got braids (for the second time as well)?So there is a german Youtuber (Shirin David) that I really enjoy watching. A few years ago she got Braids. And if im honest with you now: I thought they were horrible looking. I didn't liked them at all. Than a friend of me always told me how good it looks and that it will look good on me as well. He told me I should get Braids too. At first I wasn't listening to him. Then last year on my summer holiday in Lecce, Italy, I saw an african woman doing Braids to a girl at the beach. I can't tell you have this was even possible, but all of a sudden, I felt in love with Braids. So I got them last year...and this year too. And doing them in Italy is A) much cheaper than doing them in Switzerland and B) I'm in Italy in the summer. If I would be the whole summer with my natural curly hair, I would literally die because I always get so hot! Braids, because you have a lot of Braids but thin one, they keep you fresher, so you don't feel the heat as much as you do with opened curly hairs. So that's a big plus! :)How much does it costs?Well as I did them in Italy, at the beach, it didn't costs me a lot. Last year I paied 100€ and this year 120€. I think that's really cheap because they do have a lot of work!In Switzerland depending on where you do them you pay from CHF 400.- to CHF 800.- which I think it's insane. I would never spend so much for hairs to be honest.How long does it take to do them?Last year it toked me about three to four hours, but they were two women doing my braids. This year only one woman did them. She had more or less seven hours. It was exhausting sitting seven hours in the sand in such a hot weather. I actually burned my legs a bit that day. Hahaha :DBUT it was totally worth it!How long do they last?Depending on how quick your hairs grow and how good you maintain your hair. Usually they last from one to two months. Then they start looking untended.

Does it hurt?Well yes, it does a bit. You have to imagine that they put in extensions and to fix them with your own hair they really pull your hair from the root and start braiding. You'll probably have a bit of a headache or just a bit of pain on your scalp after one or too days. Also you might have a bit of pain whilst trying to sleep laying in your bed....but only for one or too nights. Do Braids damage your own hair?NO. They absolutely don't. African people actually say that it's a way of protection for your own hair because no heat can come to your hair which means that you are protecting it from chemical heat and sun heat. There are also a lot of people that say that you will have hair loss after opening your Braids. Well I'd say that's a lie. I mean you will loose hair....and a lot as well. This might shock you a bit. But imagine: You should lose a tons of hairs every day. The thing is, you have Braids, so the hairs you actually lose in a day, stay captured in every single braid. Now when it comes to open your Braids after like two months, every single hair you have lost in two months, that got stocked in your braid, falls out by just one time. That's why it looks like you have a hair loss. But that's just totally normal, don't worry!Now let's go on to the tips that I want to share with you incase you have or want to get Braids.

Tips1. You can wash your Braids normally, as if you would wash your normal hair. It might be good to use a shampoo and conditioner all in one for softer hair though. 2. To dry them don't rub the towel on to your Braids but just gently kind of press the Braids into the towel. Than you can blow dry them.3. If the end should open, you can put your ends in hot water (even cooked hot water). This just serves to bolt the braid.4. If your Braids are a bit wave and not straight, you can also just put warm water on the braid using your hand. After that your Braids should look straight again.